Now that we know Ben is going to relocate (to Hollywood, or at L.A.) what do you think could be the premise?
And let's especulate with the creative team
Hmmn… if we’re making wild bets, I’m gonna say… Zeb Wells writing, Carlos Gomez on pencils.
The premise will be similar to ‘Superior.’ Ben takes his Spidey persona to the West Coast, in this case Hollywood (ugh, couldn’t you have picked a better place, Ben?). Series will probably last only 12 or 13 issues (yes, I’m a pessimist), enough for a couple trades. I think it’ll be decent. Maybe not as good as Chris Yost’s modern classic Scarlet Spider series starring Kaine, but probably a good deal better than PAD’s mediocre Scarlet Spider series starring Ben27. It’ll probably end with Ben going back to the Scarlet Spider identity again, or perhaps hitting the road and putting away all heroics for a while.
Anyway, watch me be completely wrong about everything.
My dream would be Daredevil’s current team of Chip and Marco.
Love what Chip has done for DD and Spidey (especially Life Story)
I never cared for how Ben was brought back. I always thought that his return was practically baked into the story already and was baffled Slott went the way he did which is so convoluted and silly
Sounds more like you're pragmatic than pessimistic.
Marvel's been doing these spin-off Spider-Man books as far back as Grim Hunt, with Anya becoming Spider-Girl. Then with Kaine and Spider-Island, where the trend of 'moving away' began (I believe Anya's still kept her in NY). The market has just retracted and not expanded since these years (PAD's Ben sales were the level that Kaine's tanked to cancellation, for one) and we've seen this song and dance repeated to exhaustion.
Miles beat this because he was never intended as a "far from home spinoff" - when Marvel was already thinking of euthanizing the Ultimate Universe but telling readers it's going to move to a farm with lots of friends and love, they were calling it "the universe where there are no rules and anything can happen" so a new Spider-Man emerging after Peter Parker dies was a lovely idea and went with the motif of Spider-Man changing the world so there will always be one. But then they transferred Miles over to the 616 anyway and made everyone's backstories more convoluted, but it seems like they took the lesson of "Miles worked as an organic story" to "just bring in ALL the Spider-people!"
That will stick around for a year or two tops, because they didn't coalesce with such a strong hook like Miles'.
Discovering/CONFESSING! the nature of evil... one retcon at a time.
I would absolutely be down to cohost a Ben-centered podcast with you! I'd even bite the bullet and reread it straight through, if that's something we wanted to incorporate.
So, I had this notion the other day: what better job for Ben that as a stuntman in Hollywood?
As far as the creative team goes, I would kill for a DeMatteis/Gleason combo on writing with Gleason also doing the pencils. That being said, I think it's likelier we get Wells or Ziglar doing the writing, however.
As always, I'm just happy for more Ben. Hopefully we'll get stories in which his character is what pushes the story forward, rather than the premise surrounding the character (if that makes sense).
-Pav, who doesn't think Ben's stories need a hook beyond "Here's what Peter Parker might do if..."
You were Spider-Man then. You and Peter had agreed on it. But he came back right when you started feeling comfortable.
You know what it means when he comes back.
"You're not the better one, Peter. You're just older."
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Hmm, would you be referring to the theory that since Ben degenerated into dust upon death, which shouldn't have happened with a "perfect clone," that Ben's death could have been faked by Norman Osborn and/or Miles Warren using a "quick clone" whipped up with Ben's memories up to that point, so they could keep the real Ben for whatever sick plans they had in mind for him (and Peter, by extension)?
The spider is always on the hunt.
How will you guys feel if Peter gives Ben his wedding ring? So Ben and Janine get married when all of this is over?
If Ben didn't buy a ring with all that Beyond money why would Peter give him his?
Co-signed that the ring thing wouldn't work
Does Otto remember Ben from clone conspiracy?